Apple and Foxconn subsequently pledged to improve workers' conditions there.
"The UAE and TDIC have taken a number of positive steps toward improving workers' conditions, welfare and safety," wrote the spokeswoman for the Guggenheim.
His administration helped expand cattle ranching, reduce the nation's dependence on imports and foreign capital, improve workers' conditions through far-reaching social reforms, and expand education.
After we published our buyers' guide, Benetton provided us with information outlining how they are improving workers' conditions through supply chain management initiatives, which changes their scoring in this category from a worst to a middle rating.
Similarly, the Gulf Times cited as evidence of Qatar's keenness to improve workers' conditions the adoption by two major Qatari institutions, the Qatar Foundation and the 2022 Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, of standards that go a far way to improve workers' living and working conditions.
He was also critical of the "Economists", members of the Social-Democratic movement who campaigned for economic reforms to improve workers' conditions rather than fighting for socio-political revolution.
While forward-looking Qataris acknowledge the need to improve workers' conditions as well as their country's unsustainable demographic dilemma, the breaking point at this point in ongoing discussions with the ITUC is likely to be the demands for independent unions and collective bargaining.
A spokeswoman for the Guggenheim Museum and a statement from the British Museum each recognized the ongoing efforts by T.D.I.C. to improve worker conditions on Saadiyat.
Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions.
A recent Ipsos Mori survey conducted for Canadian television channel CTV found that 70% of respondents would be willing to pay more to improve worker conditions in the supply chain while 38% of interviewees claimed they are boycotting one or more brands for reasons related to poor working conditions.
